Life Forms of the Twelve Colonies

This article is a list of fictional and real animals and plants mentioned in the re-imagined series as existing on the Twelve Colonies. For the most part, the colonies appear to have the same organisms as present-day earth, with the exceptions noted below.

Fictional

Plants

• Fumarella leaf

Baltar: A parting gift: hand-rolled from some of the finest Fumarella leaf on Caprica. It's also one of the last left in the universe. (Water)

An homage to the original series, in which Starbuck's cigars are referred to as "fumarellos". This plant may be similar or identical to tobacco.

• Chamalla (Act of Contrition)

Resembles (somewhat) herbal cannabinoids and opioids in its pain-killing and hallucinogenic effects, which are found in the plants cannabis and the opium poppy, respectively.

Real

Animals

• Cat

Adama: ...then grab your gun and bring in the cat. (Mini-Series)

• Dog

Cally: "She said the engine powerup sequence began by squeezing something that looks like a red ligament with blue veins on the right side coming out of a sack of gooey fluid, shaped like a... dog." (Six Degrees of Separation)

• Horse

Tyrol: "Take it for a ride. Treat it like a horse." (Six Degrees of Separation)

• Goat

Starbuck: "A horse. Why not a goat? I mean, that's good, right? Think of it as a goat." (Six Degrees of Separation)

• Parakeet

Jammer: I don't care if they put a giant parakeet in here. If the colonel says build a cell, we build a cell. (Resistance)

• Rats
• Salmon

(Home, Part I)

Plants

• Coffea

Gaeta: Seven other container ships are refusing to release their supplies. Food, medicine, even coffee. (Resistance)

• Licorice

Roslin: Chamalla and Licorice. Would you like some? (Resistance)

• Walnut

(Home, Part I)